Wieland Inc Quotes & Sayings

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city. — Maxine Waters

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. — George R R Martin

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Ah brother, things will be better now. I promise." Ronan ... "Vital Perception — D.L. Given

Cats exercise ... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Come together, right now. — John Lennon

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat. — Mark Twain

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, it is a thoroughly aristocratic creed. The traditional English gentleman was so averse to unpleasurable labour that he could not even be bothered to articulate properly. Hence the patrician slur and drawl, Aristotle believed that being human was something you had to get good at through constant practice, like learning Catalan or playing the bagpipes; whereas if the English gentleman was virtuous, as he occasionally deigned to be, his goodness was purely spontaneous. Moral effort was for merchants and clerks — Terry Eagleton

Only your children's grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It's living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars. — T.S. Wieland

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland

Man blindly works the will of fate. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. — Christoph Martin Wieland

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift. — Christoph Martin Wieland

It's the kind of gratitude you have, she said, "when you've had a teacher who's brilliant, who has shown you the way in a fundamental sense, not in a relative sense. Who has really been able to help you see for yourself the fundamental reality beyond the duality of good and evil." Alas, she added, Zen Buddhists can "forget that we have to live in the relative world of good and evil, that we have to make choices based on right and wrong. — Mark Oppenheimer

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent. — Christoph Martin Wieland

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground. — Christoph Martin Wieland

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity. — Christoph Martin Wieland

I like sitting and writing with my buddies. — Adam Sandler

The compulsion of fate is bitter. — Christoph Martin Wieland

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time. — Christoph Martin Wieland

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.] — Christoph Martin Wieland

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired. — Robert Baden-Powell

I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books. — T.S. Wieland

The presence of cats exercises such a magic influence upon highly organized men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom ... have been the favorite animal of a Mahommed, Cardinal Richelieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch